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I would like to pass on a big thanks to all that I had a QSO with on ANZAC Day. Whilst not as flat out as Australia Day I still made a fairly good number of contacts in my opinion. Due to local commitments here my time on the air was no where near as much as it was on Australia Day - roughly it was a bit less than half. On station we had some of the typical ANZAC Day events such as rum and coffee first up in the morning followed by a dawn memorial service, brunch and then some two-up. We also had some movies on in the evening. All up was a very busy day for me, but most enjoyable. This just leaves World Telecommunications Day on the 17th of May for me to use AX0BP. A quick summary of the day; 1. I made a total of 282 contacts to 278 individuals (761 on Australia Day with 746 individuals - now a total of 1003 individuals), 2. Into 32 countries (70 countries on Australia Day - now a total of 75 countries) 3. I had contact with 84 VK/AX Callsigns (38 on Australia Day) 4. My first VK/AX contact on both Australia day and ANZAC Day was Laurie VK7ZE 5. Band conditions were vastly different between Australia Day and ANZAC Day. On Australia Day no signals were heard on 40m and 20m was pretty much open all day, ANZAC Day saw me using 40m till 20m opened up, then back to 40m later on. 6. Local Conditions - Australia Day had 24 hours of daylight with a maximum temp of +11.2C, ANZAC Day there was roughly 7 hours of daylight and a maximum temp of -14C (which was the warmest day in 3 weeks). I look forward to the challenges World Telecommunications Day will bring. I am sure that the band conditions will be vastly different once again, as will the temperature. Looking at sunrise/sunset times i can only expect about 4 hours of sunlight - so quite different even from now. I have now updated my online logs for both VK0BP and AX0BP callsigns and they are up-to-date as of the 27th April 2009. Bob VK0BP/AX0BP |